The Affinities Between Marxism and Christianity with Scott Paeth

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Theology Nerd Podcast with the Dr. Tripp Fuller. This is a shorter Q&A episode, where your friendly, local internet theologian answers questions submitted by you.

Today Tripp is joined by Scott Paeth, professor and ethicist at DePaul University, to help answer your questions, including:

what is gained by engaging with Karl Marx if you’re a Christian?

Scott and Tripp discuss the affinities between Marxism and Christianity, how capitalism is contrary to Christian values, how Marxism and Christianity draw upon each other, how money and possessions determine a lot about our relationships, and the Marxist critique of religion.

Plus, how our unquestioned ideology sustains our economic systems, and what Marx really has to say about religion.

There are lots of ways you can submit a question for Tripp to answer: go to trippfuller.com and click the “send voicemail” button on the right (near the scroll bar); you can also leave us a 5-star review on iTunes with your question as the review; you can tweet @trippfuller; or you can send an email with your question to [email protected]